Teachers’ resources

The resource is a set of 8 lesson plans for Personal and Social Education for Years 9-11/S3 and S4, which have be inspired by some of the issues in Missing Mel.  These include bullying, the harm done by gossip and rumour, issues of sexual attraction and stress, pressure and missing people all of which may lead to young people making desperate choices.  The lesson plans use the script and DVD from the 2006 performance at the Greenwood Theatre London.

Missing Mel is a moving and contemporary musical originally devised with young people from Youth Music Theatre UK in Belfast in 2004.  It tells the story of a girl who goes missing at the start of the summer term and the effect her disappearance has on her friends and the wider school community.  Where is she? What's happened?  And did her arch-enemy Cat have anything to do with it?

The aims of the Missing Mel Teachers’ Resource Pack are to:

• find engaging ways to involve young people in discussing issues that affect their lives,
• raise young people’s confidence and self-esteem,
• help young people understand how to make positive choices
• develop communication skills through stimulation by real and imaginary contexts.

Visit the resource pack on the NASUWT Website